Recognition of Human Beings

Furuta Takehiko

Translation: Fujisawa Toru
Proofreading: Kenneth Anderson

---Broken rifles and distorted earth, the remains of dead soldiers---
(Poem by Tanigawa Shuntaro, Song by Ishikawa Seri)

I

In facing the twenty-first century,
there are three challenges to the mission of the human race:
The first challenge is religion. Religion was born among humans. For what purpose? Of course,
for the sake of human beings themselves. Religion was created
for the people to have happy and meaningful lives.
However, religion has become arrogant.
Religionists have the illusion that they possess the right to
kill people and feel their dogma justified in giving the order
to kill. Their dogma have intoxicated them. Convinced that they
have absolute power, an indulgence granted them by religion, they
are no longer afraid to kill.
In looking back at human history, we can
see the fact that "holy" wars slaughtered innumerable
numbers of people, leaving heaps of corpses. Undoubtedly, religion
has gone too far.
The 1995 cult incidents which shocked
the Japan archipelago could conceivably be considered trivial
in view of the heaps of corpses strewn throughout the wasteland
of human history.
Now, however, we must announce that humans
created religion, not vice versa; therefore, religionists should
not be arrogant and assume that they have the power to kill people.

II

The second challenge is science. Its remarkable developments have created a religion of science, a drunken state of mind. Not a few "intellectuals" believe
in science as an alternative religion. Their belief has influenced the general public.
As a matter of fact, the appraisal of
science depends on its use. Take for example the Nazis. They committed
genocide through the use of new technology: the gas chamber. The
Nazis were originally a party of laborers in Austria with Christian
principles dedicated to humanistic causes. They used the "latest
scientific facilities" to annihilate "Judaists"
and "atheists" as the last remaining non-Christians
in Europe.
Science is ugly so far. Nothing is uglier
than science if it is used to achieve ugly ends. It is like a
kitchen knife. It can be used to help make the best cooking. Or
it can be used for murder.
Scientist must not forget an essential
fact when they have a kitchen knife in their hands: People created
science, not vice verse. Science is beautiful when this is remembered.
It is more beautiful than anything else.

III

The third challenge is the state. We
owe allegiance to the state in life, culture, and education. There
is no doubt about that. Therefore, a false assumption was born:
that the state should exist for the sake of the state. Therefore,
the state at present has the supreme right to kill people. This
is a principle espoused among many modern states.
However, we must also remember that humans
created the state, not vice versa. In short, the state is yet
another human-made tool.
Therefore, the state can gain the right
to murder or to drug its own subjects. As an example, the Nazis
were able to create the Third Reich as a result of their obtaining
the power of the state. Religion, science, the state --- these
three have been the source of outrageous use of power.
In the case of 1995 Aum cult incident
in Japan, the number of victims was limited because the cult failed
to take over the state.
I cannot help shedding tears when I am
reminded of one of the victims: a baby child who was killed and
buried in the Chubu mountains.
I repeat that the number of victims was
limited only because the cult was not yet able to overturn the
state. If, in future, another cult succeeds in abusing the power
bestowed by religion, science, the state, tens of thousands of
children will be buried underground. What happened twice will
happen thrice. It is easy to imagine that the future ability by
science to commit genocide will far exceed its power in the days
of the Nazis or of the 1995 Aum cult. The Nazis used the indoor
gas chamber; the 1995 cult used gas is residential areas and in
a subway. In the future, what will happen? The possibilities
horrify us.
The state is a marvelous human tool; but
it can also turn into a formidable weapon. We know that the Nazis
were able to use this weapon as a result of their success in obtaining
a majority in the polls. The democratic system ironically gave
birth to dictatorship.
In facing the twenty-first century, we
must firmly denounce the arrogation of unlawful power by the state.
And we must continue to do so. The advance of science, one of
the three sources of power, is progressing rapidly. Society must
be strong enough to control it.
It is definitely the human task to solve
the challenges of the arrogance of abuse of power by religion,
science, and state.

IV

The arrogation of power by the state
start from the "brainwashing" of a nation. Above all,
it focuses on the control of history.
The state fabricates history as it likes.
History thus made will be made into the pillar of what is called
a "legitimate education," thus creating a robot nation
which will bow to its preferences.
All modern state act this way. In the case of our own country,
one fabrication is the "Imperial History View" of the
prewar days, which advocated the supremacy of Japanese history
over and above the rest of the world's. Another is the "Emperor-centered
hagiography," still being espoused after Japan's defeat in
World War II.
Above all, such state education blinds
most of the robot nation, whose members are not even aware of
the fact that they are drifting in a treacherous stream. This
cannot be emphasized too much.
Any commercial propaganda seems amateurish
when compared to the commercial message of the state.
First of all, commercial message are overt,
in the eyes of the public, whether they be on TV, in newspapers,
or in handbills.
However, people are not aware of the fact
that the state education promulgated by the modern state constitutes
a huge system of hidden commercial messages, even though this
is a plain fact. Therefore, the effect of the state's commercial
messages are so great that they have deeply infiltrated the nation's
psyche.

V

For a example, in the case of Yamatai-koku,
according to the Wajin-den, a Chinese history of Japan and Japanese
in the third century, silk was apparently the most important present
sent from the Chinese Emperor to the Japanese Empress Himika.
In contrast to other presents such as gold and copper mirrors,
which are lumped together in one general description, silk is
written about in more detail.
And indeed silk from the Yayoi Period
(including the third century) has been found along the Bay of
Hakata all the way from Arita (where the oldest silk has been
found) to Tonoharu (where the most recent examples of silk have
been discovered.)
Please refer to A New History of Ancient
Japan published by Shinsensya and There was no Yamatai-koku,
a revised and enlarged edition published by the Asahi Library.
Both books were written by Furuta Takehiko, the writer of this
thesis.
The geographical location of the Yamatai-koku
country is obvious whether you call it Yamaichi-koku, in accordance
with the original Chinese text, or Yamatai-koku in distorted texts.
Why is it that state-approved school textbooks
avoid the mention of silk and unanimously declare that the location
of Yamatai-koku has not yet been determined? It is because if
they did, the Imperial Family-oriented View of History, including
the Imperial Supremacy View of History advocated since the Meiji
Era, will prove contradictory and inconsistent.
There is no reason for this avoidance
of fact other than the demands of the brainwashing policy of the
state, by the state, and for the state, which is contradictory
and inconsistent with the truth.

VI

There are admittedly attempts to get
around the above dilemma with statements such as this: Chikugo-Yamato
in Kyushu has been mentioned as an alternative to Yamatai-koku
in postwar textbooks. What else can they do? If one refers to
the Bay of Hakata, which is not mentioned in textbooks, and you
blame the fact that it is not mentioned in textbooks on the state-approved
history of the Imperial Family, you may be labeled by the state
as subjective and egoistic.
However, my arguments do not end with
either the theory of Yamatai-koku or the location of the Bay of
Hakata. My readers know this.
As mentioned in my Criticism of Nihon
Shoki published by Shinsensya, there is agreement between
descriptions of the above mentioned historical books with archeological
finds. The Kutojo, a Chinese history book on Japan depicts Wa-koku
as situated in Chikushi, an old name for Fukuoka Prefecture which
continued to be used till the end of the seventh century. Furthermore,
excavated wooden pieces of letter indicated that the change from
"hyo" to "gun" (names of administrative areas)
was at the end of the seventh century. Is this a mere coincidence?
No. It is a reflection of the actual happenings of history.
If this agreement between historical record and archeological
finds is deemed a coincidence, the study of history is turned
into a fiction, far from historical truth.
I cannot but say that state's brainwashing
policy has been illogical and poorly conceived ever since the
Meiji Era.
The Ecclesiastical Calendar which medieval
church education made possible and circulated to justify the idea
of the Christian God's control of the universe was defeated and
destroyed in the face of the truth of Galileo's heliocentric theory.
Similarly, the Imperial Calendar of Japan
is no more consistent with historical fact and the operation of
time than the Church's policies were.
In the same way that Galileo was persecuted,
a sect approving of the Imperial Calendar has been making vain
efforts to ignore, persecute, and slander us in order to extinguish
us.
Nevertheless, as Galileo's theories clarified
the operation of the universe in detail, rebuttal and denial of
the Imperial Calendar will indubitably reveal the real footprints
of our ancestors.
This is by all means a starting point
for the recognition of human reason, of, for, and by human beings,
so that brainwashing by the state can be terminated, and what
has happened twice will not happen thrice.
(Originally Written on December 31, 1995)

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